Golden Suns top Missouri Western 81-75Arkansas Tech got the defensive stops and free throws it needed at the critical moments to take an 81-75 non-conference women’s basketball win over the Missouri Western Golden Griffons at Tucker Coliseum on Monday night. The nationally 13th-ranked Golden Suns (15-3) received key defensive rebounds from Natalia Santos and Jessica Weatherford in the final two minutes, and Santos took a charge with four seconds left that sealed the victory. Those...

Hometown Wonder BoysIn sports, most high school teammates go their separate ways after graduation. Some move on to the college game, some concentrate on academics and some join the work force. On a rare occasion, they wind up playing together in the college ranks. While they all took different routes, some longer and farther than the others, four local basketball players found home — at Arkansas Tech University and the court inside Tucker Coliseum. Jared Williams...

Road woes: LSU gets past Arkansas 71-65BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Following a difficult January schedule in which his LSU team lost four games to ranked teams, coach Trent Johnson admitted Saturday’s 71-65 victory against Arkansas provided a necessary boost. “Boy, we needed that,” Johnson said. “After our last game against Kentucky, we were pretty fragile. We fought through this week. We need contributions from everybody to win. This was a good win.” Ralston Turner, who had scored mor...

Ozarks basketball sweeps Centenary CollegeWoolverton scores 18 in win CLARKSVILLE — Colby Woolverton hit three 3-pointers and scored 18 points to lead Ozarks past Centenary College 80-75 on Saturday. The Eagles (6-14, 3-12 ASC) built a big first-half lead behind a balanced scoring attack. Charles Palmer scored nine points off the bench, while Woolverton and Marcus Bobb had eight apiece. Five other players also scored during the first half, helping Ozarks to a 42-30 intermission lead. ...

Tech gets revenge on UAMMONTICELLO — Johnie Davis’ putback basket with one second remaining lifted the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys to a 74-73 Great American Conference win over the Arkansas-Monticello Boll Weevils at Steelman Field House in Monticello on Thursday night. Davis drove the length of the floor and missed a running 12-footer in the waning seconds, but he rebounded his own miss and hit a 5-footer from right of the lane to give Arkansas-Monticello its first ho...

Golden Suns edge Arkansas-MonticelloMONTICELLO — Nationally 13th-ranked Arkansas Tech survived a furious comeback bid by Arkansas-Monticello to register a 77-76 Great American Conference women’s basketball victory at Steelman Field House in Monticello on Thursday night. The Golden Suns (14-3 overall, 6-3 GAC) led 69-50 with 7:01 remaining, but a 26-8 UAM run pulled the Cotton Blossoms within 77-76 with six seconds remaining. After Arkansas Tech missed the front end of a 1-and-1,...

Razorbacks fail to land Green-BeckhamFAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas couldn’t land the big-name Wednesday, when record-setting Hillcrest (Mo.) High wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham signed a national letter of intent with Missouri. But it was pretty clear Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino had turned the page on any disappointment a little later, when he was asked about missing out on the opportunity to bring one of the nation’s top prospects to campus and plug him into his high-powered offen...

Ward makes it official, signs with ArkansasPOTTSVILLE — Compared to his fellow University of Arkansas signees, Jeremy Ward’s signing event on Wednesday was decidedly lacking in suspense. The offensive guard made up his mind almost a year ago, and Apaches’ Coach Bryan Rust said he knew there would be no wavering by Ward. “He 100 percent wanted to be a Razorback,” Rust said. Ward said he was in English class last year, when he was called to the principal’s office to discover the offer he...

Tech starts second half of GAC slateRound two of the Great American Conference double round-robin basketball schedule begins tonight, and that means one thing — the teams that make the proper adjustments are the teams that will come out on top. Arkansas Tech will visit Arkansas-Monticello for a GAC doubleheader at Steelman Field House in Monticello tonight. Tip-off for the women’s game between nationally 13th-ranked Arkansas Tech (13-3 overall, 5-3 GAC) and the UAM Cotton Blosso...

Velazquez signs with Arkansas Tech
DARDANELLE — For most of the football season, Dardanelle Coach Josh Price would call on placekicker Randy Velazquez if the Sand Lizards moved the ball anywhere midfield. Defenses would look on puzzled as Velazquez lined up for field goal attempts of 50 yards and longer. “They were like, ‘Are you kidding?’ like it was a joke,” Velazquez said. “But Coach Price just told me to kick it like I can. He said, ‘If it goes in, it goes in.’ It took the ...

Another surprise?FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas guard Rickey Scott and the Razorbacks won’t ever forget the jaw-dropping performance. How could they? Teammate Michael Sanchez had been battling injuries most of the 2010-11 season and scored 17 points in eight games. So it was remarkable to watch Sanchez notch a career-high 20 points at Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym, beating Commodores center Festus Ezeli to the bucket again and again. “It was crazy,” Scott said looking ba...

Wonder Boys move into first-place tie with 89-72 win at SAUMAGNOLIA — Jeremy Hoard scored a career-high 23 points Saturday night to lead the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys to an 89-72 Great American Conference win over the Southern Arkansas Muleriders at the W.T. Watson Athletic Center. Hoard, a Russellville native, was 7-of-8 from 3-point range as the Wonder Boys (14-4 overall, 6-2 GAC) pulled into a tie for first place in the Great American Conference standings with Henderson State (11-7, 6-2), which suf...

Total annihilation: Quick start lifts Golden Suns to 92-63 winMAGNOLIA — Nationally 13th-ranked Arkansas Tech got off to a fast start and coasted to a 92-63 win over the Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders in Great American Conference women’s basketball at the W.T. Watson Athletic Center on Saturday night. The Golden Suns (13-3 overall, 5-3 GAC) jumped out to an 18-point lead in the first seven minutes and never surrendered the lead as they defeated Southern Arkansas for the 12th consecutive time. “I told ...

Hogs remain winless on the roadTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Trevor Releford scored 18 points and Alabama snapped a four-game losing streak, beating Arkansas 72-66 on Saturday. JaMychal Green finished with 14 points and eight rebounds for the Crimson Tide (14-7, 3-4 Southeastern Conference), who won their 500th game in Coleman Coliseum. Tony Mitchell and Andrew Steele each scored 11 points. Steele also had a career-high six assists and six rebounds. The four players who scored in...

Crimson Tide itching for another winFAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Mike Anderson and the Razorbacks are aware of Alabama’s recent resume. The Crimson Tide — which returned most of its key components from a team that went 12-4 in the Southeastern Conference last season — has lost four straight conference games. It’s a puzzling and frustrating slide for a group that opened the year 7-0 and climbed to No. 12 in the polls. But Anderson also knows what it means for today’s game. “I ju...

Wonder Boys cage the Tigers, 82-67Arkansas Tech used a combination of 3-point shooting and turnover margin to run past the Ouachita Baptist Tigers 82-67 in Great American Conference men’s basketball action at Tucker Coliseum in Russellville on Thursday night. The Wonder Boys (13-4 overall, 5-2 GAC) made 10-of-23 shots from 3-point range and finished with a 36-13 edge in points off turnovers as they beat Ouachita Baptist for the sixth time in their last seven meetings. The turn...

No. 13 Golden Suns beat OBU 76-66Arkansas Tech did the only thing you can do after a long winning streak comes to an end — start a new one. The nationally 13th-ranked Golden Suns defeated the Ouachita Baptist Lady Tigers 76-66 in Great American Conference action at Tucker Coliseum in Russellville on Thursday night. The bounce-back win came just 72 hours after Arkansas Tech saw its 42-game home winning streak come to an end with a 77-69 loss to Harding on Monday. “It was a bat...

OBU, Tech to square off againPerhaps never in its 36-year history has Tucker Coliseum seen a greater range of emotions in a single night than it did on Feb. 26, 2011. That was the last time Ouachita Baptist University visited Arkansas Tech University for a basketball doubleheader. The Tigers and the Lady Tigers will make their return to Tucker Coliseum tonight. Tip-off for the women’s contest between nationally 13th-ranked Arkansas Tech (11-3 overall, 3-3 Great American C...